Yesterday I found a very interesting piece of information on the King family in 'The Perlustration of Great Yarmouth, with Gorleston and Southtown vol 1' by Palmer, Charles John, (pub 1872).
This is found in a footnote and reads, 'John Say, who died in 1749, devised a small estate at Swanton Abbott to Thomas King, who died in 1767, and who was the great grandfather of Thomas William King, Esq., York Herald, a native of Yarmouth'.
The post of York Herald of Arms in Ordinary is an officer of arms at the College of Arms. More information can be found here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/York_HeraldNow as it appears that my ancestor was this Thomas King who died in 1767, what I would like to try and find out is where this Thomas William King's papers and research might have gone on his own family.
He did research on other families and given this information it seems clear he must have researched his own family. The only question is where this paperwork may have come from!
I have emailed the College of Arms and await to see if they can help at all on this.
Thomas William King was born in Yarmouth in 1801 as the son of Thomas King and Mary Ann Nuthall. They married in 1800.
This Thomas King was presumably the one born in Yarmouth in 1774, son of Thomas King and Sarah Webb who married in 1771.
And then this Thomas King was presumably the one born in Yarmouth in 1741 as the son of Thomas King (d. 1767) and Mary Warnes who married in 1740/1.
This would then correctly make Thomas William King (1801-1872) the great grandson of Thomas King (d. 1767). However of course to be able to see any research Thomas William King did on his family would be amazing. But if course I have yet to know if it even survives!
Best wishes,
Jon